Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #378.

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News

• ● Disclosure of four low-severity vulnerabilities in Bitcoin Core (1:00)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

• ● Why was -datacarriersize redefined in 2022, and why was the 2023 proposal to expand it not merged? (17:53)

• ● What is the smallest valid transaction that can be included in a block? (22:59)

• ● Why does Bitcoin Core continue to give witness data a discount even when it is used for inscriptions? (25:38)

• ● The ever-growing Bitcoin blockchain size? (39:17)

• ● I read that OP_TEMPLATEHASH is a variant of OP_CTV. How do they differ? (44:59)

Releases and release candidates

• ● LND 0.20.0-beta.rc1 (49:59)

• ● Eclair 0.13.1 (50:43)

Notable code and documentation changes

• ● Bitcoin Core #29640 (51:21)

• ● Core Lightning #8400 (54:15)

• ● Eclair #3173 (54:53)

• ● LND #10280 (56:56)

• ● BIPs #2006 (57:27)

• ● BIPs #1975 (1:00:58)

Transcription

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